a journal of finding good food and restaurants i love to eat in Taipei when I'm not in Los Angeles. looking forward to hearing from other food lovers about where your favorite places to eat are, so i can try them next!

Kid friendliness: no high chairs spotted and crowded space during busy lunch hour.

Visit reviewed: 6/26/2007

If you've never really heard of knife cut noodles (or dao xiao mien), then you're in for a treat. I'd heard of fresh noodles, rolled and cut by hand, but never really eaten the kind that is slivered off a block of dough by a flat piece of metal right before it comes to your table. The knife cut method is famous from Shan Xi, a part of China where they love noodles.

But everyone loves noodles right?

Here you can choose dark beef noodle soup or the lighter tomato-infused clear broth, you can even get the beef noodle soup with tomatoes, which is what our friend recommended. She had been coming here since she was a kid, so it was evident that it was a neighborhood favorite as the small restaurant was packed with locals.

The menu is the kind that you check off the boxes, only in Chinese, so don't expect pictures. But if you don't read Chinese and still want to try it out, you can just point to a dish that looks good at the table next to yours. Everything on the menu is very very affordable at under NT$150.

I found the soy sauce beef broth to be a wee bit salty, but I still drank half of the bowl. The noodles are chewy (very QQ) and slippery, piled in the bowl in uneven thicker and shorter pieces than you'd find from a cut noodles place. It also comes with a large spoonful of the pickled vegetables that I like and plenty of beef pieces.

You can also grab the cold appetizers such as tofu and thousand year old egg, cucumbers or green beans. There is also green onion pancakes made in the front, though I found that it was too thick and doughy for my liking.

No matter- you are here for the beef noodle soup! Although I think I remember people at other tables eating rice and other dishes, everyone at our table had noodle soup (NT$90). While I was trying to find the address for this place (before getting it from my friend), I found that actually there are quite a few Dao Xiao Mien shops, and also some with the same exact name. So maybe they are all worth a try, if you see a sign like this near you. But if you want a sure thing, I strongly recommend that you head over to this Shan Xi Dao Xiao Mien shop.

if this is the noodle place i'm thining about (located just north of taida), there is a great japanese curry place located on the same street just a few doors south. when i studied chinese at taida, this curry place was my absolute favorite restaurant in taipei.. because of the reasonable price and the delicious, simple menu. if its still there, it is a Green sign i think with the word Cali (in roman letters). yum.

you´re exactly right. this is one of my favorite lunch places in the alley that serves most of the taida students.

i, too, studied mandarin at taida this past year and in previous summers. the curry place you mention is only open for lunch. its very simple meal, just rice, whatever meat or veggies you choose and then the curry. and of course you get a free cold cup of tea.

the noodle shop is quite well known in the taiwanese and japanese press. i love just watching them slice the noodles. the broth is particularly good here too.

cant agree more...this place is real good...comfort food...the tomatoe noodles are the best...well...ive only tried the beef stir-fried version cause i just have to get the same tomatoe one everytime i go...(and virgomac is right its not anho road)-cheers

there is a better scallion pancake place down the rd from there. Same lane, but you keep walking down towards taida. It is directly across from this corner shop that sells drinks. It has a green sign and it is delicious. Do cool that you like DXM.

Hi, I'm surprised you don't have this little place on Ba Teh Rd, near the KMT offices, for beef noodle soup. Every part of the dish is perfection. Sorry I don't know the name but if you ask around about the fantastic beef noodle soup on Ba Teh Rd, someone is bound to know. (BTW, there's near an RT Mart. Hope that helps.)

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